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Agency has two meanings in psychology and neuroscience. It can refer to one's capacity to affect the world and act in line with one's goals and desires--this is the objective aspect of agency. But agency can also refer to the subjective experience of controlling one's actions, or how it feels to achieve one's goals or affect the world. This subjective aspect is known as the sense of agency, and it is an important part of what makes us human. Interest in the sense of agency has exploded since the early 2000s, largely because scientists have learned that it can be studied objectively through analyses of human judgment, behavior, and the brain. This book brings together some of the world's leading researchers to give structure to this nascent but rapidly growing field. The contributors address questions such as: What role does agency play in the sense of self? Is agency based on predicting outcomes of actions? And what are the links between agency and motivation?Recent work on the sense of agency has been markedly interdisciplinary. The chapters collected here combine ideas and methods from fields as diverse as engineering, psychology, neurology, neuroscience, and philosophy of mind, making the book a valuable resource for any student or researcher interested in action, volition, and exploring how mind and brain are organized.

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Author:   Patrick Haggard (Professor in the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and the Department of Psychology, University College London) ,  Baruch Eitam (Professor of Psychology, University of Haifa)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 24.30cm
Weight:   0.806kg
ISBN:  

9780190267278

ISBN 10:   0190267275
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   12 November 2015
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Introduction Part I. Volition 1. Time to Act: The Dynamics of Agentive Experiences Elisabeth Pacherie 2. Deconstructing Voluntary Action: Unconscious and Conscious Component Processes Lara C. Krisst, Carlos Montemayor, and Ezequiel Morsella 3. Action Control by If-then Plans: Explicating the Mechanisms of Strategic Automaticity Torsten Martiny-Huenger, Sarah E. Martiny, and Peter M. Gollwitzer 4. Neural Correlates of Intentions Roee Gilron, Shiri Simon, and Roy Mukamel 5. Explicit and Implicit Beliefs, Attitudes, and Intentions: The Role of Conscious and Unconscious Processes in Human Behavior Icek Ajzen and Nilanjana Dasgupta 6. The Neural Basis Underlying the Experience of Control in the Human Brain Lauren A. Leotti, Catherine Cho, and Mauricio R. Delgado 7. Goals and the Sense of Agency: The Case of Goal Conflict Tali Kleiman Part II. Determining Authorship 8. Inference Processes Underlying the Human Experience of Agency over Operant Actions Myrthel Dogge and Henk Aarts 9. Agency and Outcome Prediction Antje Gentsch and Simone Schutz-Bosbach 10. The Relations between Agency and Body-Ownership: Additive or Independent? Manos Tsakiris 11. Innate Experience of Self-Agency Philippe Rochat 12. Motivation from Control: A Response Selection Framework Noam Karsh and Baruch Eitam Part III. Beyond Authorship 13. Comparators and Weightings: Neurocognitive Accounts of Agency Matthis Synofzik 14. Action Control and the Sense of Agency Bernhard Hommel 15. Control and Truth Working Together: The Agentic Experience Going in the Right Direction E. Tory Higgins Part IV. Disturbances 16. Sense of Agency and Its Disruption: Clinical and Computational Perspectives Paul Fletcher and Aikaterini Fotopoulou 17. Action Generation, Intention, and Agency in Motor and Body Awareness Deficits Anna Berti, Francesca Garbarini, and Lorenzo Pia 18. Disorders of Volition from Neurological Disease: Altered Awareness of Action in Neurological Disorders James B. Rowe and Noham Wolpe Index

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Patrick Haggard is Professor in the Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and the Department of Psychology at University College London. Baruch Eitam is Professor of Psychology at the University of Haifa, Israel.

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